Knowles v. Bayview Loan Servicing, LLC (In Re Knowles)

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a creditor does not violate the automatic stay by sending a payoff statement to the debtor if the debtor requests that statement and the statement cannot be construed as an attempt to seek payment from the debtor
• explaining that “[t]he argument is waived because it was not raised below.”
• observing that “a ‘mere request for payment’ does not violate the stay unless it is coercive ■ or harassing,” and holding that “the filing of the proof of claim is not an act against property of the debtor.”
• affirming bankruptcy court’s holding that statements sent for informational purposes were not acts to collect on the debt without discussing injury
• “The [tax] statement was merely an informative document sent in the normal course of business that contained data the Debtor needed in order to prepare her tax return.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).